ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,030, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto-fu, Japan).
"Coil component" was invented by Tomoyuki Wada (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Kazuto Shibuya (Nagaokakyo, Japan), Seiya Yuki (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Yuki Kanbe (Nagaokakyo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coil component includes a core that has a columnar winding core portion and a flange formed at an end of the winding core portion in an axial direction. The coil component also includes a terminal electrode formed at an end surface of the flange and a wire being wound around the winding core portion with one end portion coupled to the terminal electr...